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...Byron had obviously not been to Russia when he wrote that "what men call gallantry, and gods adultery, is much more common where the cli mate's sultry...
...first novels. Says Senior Editor Stefan Kanfer, whose book. The Eighth Sin, will appear this spring: "Every journalist is always writing a novel in his head because we are all self-dramatizing types." Associate Editor James Atwater drew on the trouble in Northern Ireland for Time Bomb; Writer Christopher Byron is completing The Holder of the Present, set in Greece; Contributor Richard Schickel's Another I, Another You, a love story about two divorced people, will be published...
...scarlet dragoon's uniform, he preens before a mirror and loftily mouths stanzas from Byron. Playing the highborn gentleman, though fooling no one, Con charges over the countryside on a thoroughbred mare while reducing his daughter to a barroom slavey. He sneers at the Yankees as vulgar traders while owing them money and enjoying none of their trade...
...reverse discrimination" favoring disadvantaged minority candidates who were, by traditional admission standards, less qualified than the white. Said Cox: "The answer which the court gives will determine, perhaps for decades, whether members of [racial] minorities are to have meaningful access to higher education." After a few minutes, Justice Byron White interrupted Cox to inquire about the adequacy of the trial record in lower courts. And then for two hours the Justices questioned the lawyers, Cox and McCree and Reynold Colvin, Bakke's San Francisco attorney...
...Justice Byron White: Even if [the needs for more minority professionals] are compelling interests, and even if there is no alternative, you believe the use of the racial classification is unconstitutional...